Quid Hic Agis? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHAAIIGG JJKKIILLII A MMNGIOPBIOGPGQQGIIII RR A PPKKGHGHHHPPHHPPSSII II I| I | A |
| - | |
| When I weekly knew | B |
| An ancient pew | B |
| And murmured there | C |
| The forms of prayer | C |
| And thanks and praise | D |
| In the ancient ways | D |
| And heard read out | E |
| During August drought | E |
| That chapter from Kings | F |
| Harvest time brings | F |
| How the prophet broken | G |
| By griefs unspoken | G |
| Went heavily away | H |
| To fast and to pray | H |
| And while waiting to die | A |
| The Lord passed by | A |
| And a whirlwind and fire | I |
| Drew nigher and nigher | I |
| And a small voice anon | G |
| Bade him up and be gone | G |
| I did not apprehend | J |
| As I sat to the end | J |
| And watched for her smile | K |
| Across the sunned aisle | K |
| That this tale of a seer | I |
| Which came once a year | I |
| Might when sands were heaping | L |
| Be like a sweat creeping | L |
| Or in any degree | I |
| Bear on her or on me | I |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| When later by chance | M |
| Of circumstance | M |
| It befel me to read | N |
| On a hot afternoon | G |
| At the lectern there | I |
| The selfsame words | O |
| As the lesson decreed | P |
| To the gathered few | B |
| From the hamlets near | I |
| Folk of flocks and herds | O |
| Sitting half aswoon | G |
| Who listened thereto | P |
| As women and men | G |
| Not overmuch | Q |
| Concerned at such | Q |
| So like them then | G |
| I did not see | I |
| What drought might be | I |
| With me with her | I |
| As the Kalendar | I |
| Moved on and Time | R |
| Devoured our prime | R |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| But now at last | P |
| When our glory has passed | P |
| And there is no smile | K |
| From her in the aisle | K |
| But where it once shone | G |
| A marble men say | H |
| With her name thereon | G |
| Is discerned to day | H |
| And spiritless | H |
| In the wilderness | H |
| I shrink from sight | P |
| And desire the night | P |
| Though as in old wise | H |
| I might still arise | H |
| Go forth and stand | P |
| And prophesy in the land | P |
| I feel the shake | S |
| Of wind and earthquake | S |
| And consuming fire | I |
| Nigher and nigher | I |
| And the voice catch clear | I |
| What doest thou here | I |
| - | |
| The Spectator During the War | I |
Thomas Hardy
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